SESSION I    - 9 a.m. -12 p.m.

Nancy Kollman (Stanford U), "Reflections on Concepts of Masculinity in Muscovite and Petrine Russia"

Georg Michels (UC  Riverside)  "Avvakum's Rivals: Local Strongmen and Rebels of the Seventeenth Century"

Viktor Zhivov (UC Berkeley) , "Vremia i ego sobstvennik v Rossii novogo vremeni (XVII-XVIII veka)"

Alexander Kamenskii (RGGU/Stanford U), "Urban life in 18th century Russia"

Lunch at Kerckhoff Hall.

2 p.m  - reconvene at the Huntington Library.

Guided tour of the Art Galleries, which contain one of the most comprehensive collections of eighteenth century British and French paintings; and of the exhibit "Words of Profit and Delight: Reading in Renaissance England", featuring Shakespeare’s Folios, Guttenberg Bible, and Ellesmere Chaucer.

We will then stroll through the Gardens over to the Lily Pond, for a Roundtable Discussion on select issues of interest to our participants concerning 17-18th с. Russian studies.

Afterwards, for those still with energy, are two other exhibits at the Huntington: "The Art of Bloombsbury", a great and rare exhibit,  with many items coming from the Tate Gallery in London; and "The Land of the Golden Dreams: The California Gold Rush", which is fun and interesting, if rather time consuming.

6 p.m.  dinner party at the Tsapins’, 986 La Canada Verdugo Road, Pasadena.

Sunday, April 9.

Back at Kerckhoff Hall, 734 West Adams Blvd.

Bagel Breakfast from 9 a.m.

Sunday, April 9

SESSION 2    - 9:30 a.m.- 12:30  p.m.

Viacheslav Ivanov (UCLA), "The First Russian Translations of Plato (the Second Half of the XVIIIth c.)"

Elise Wirtschafter (Cal State Politechnic U).  "The Well-Ordered Society of Russian Enlightened Theater"

Joachim Klein (U of Leiden/UCLA), "Sumarokov and Rzhevskii: On the History of the Russian Tragedy ("Dimitrii Samozvanets" and "Podlozhnyi Smerdii")"

Harsha Ram (UC Berkeley), "Rereading Lyric Self: Individuation in the Odes of Derzhavin"

Myriam LeFloch (USC/Hoover Library), "The Slovar’ Akademii Rosiiskoi and the Russian State: Interpreting the Dictionary's Sources"

Lunch at Kerckhoff Hall.

SESSION 3 – 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Olga Tsapina (Hantington Library), "Russian Orthodox Enlightenment: Oxymoron or Historical Reality?"

Marcus Levitt (USC), "Visual Theology: Trediakovsky's 'Feoptiia'"

Lena Smilianskaia (Kennan Institute), "Rationalism and Superstition of Authorities and Subjects in Eighteenth Century Russia"

Andrei Pliguzov (Library of Congress), "18th Century Russian Old Belief: How Well Do We Know It?"

Kevin Platt (PomonaCollege), "On Recycling and History: Peter I in Modern Russian Political Consciousness"